Resources on the topic of digital morphogenesis (creating form with code). Includes links to major articles, code repos, creative projects, books, software, and more.

Visual experiments exploring differential growth as a 2D morphogenesis tool.

Visual experiments exploring space colonization as a 2D morphogenesis tool.

Interactive reaction-diffusion simulation with organic patterns and behaviors that emerge from the interactions of two chemicals mixed together.

Visual experiments exploring diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) as a 2D morphogenesis tool.

Spheroid models of morphogenesis for the GPU.

4D reconstruction of developmental trajectories using spherical harmonics

(WIP) An interactive web app for exploring cellular automata.

WheatFspm is a Functional Structural Plant Model (FSPM) of wheat based on an innovative modelling framework for a better understanding of grass morphogenesis and C-N economy in interaction with environmental conditions.

Unity implementation of the space colonization algorithm to generate organic branching structures.

This project is inspired by the paper "Growing Neural Cellular Automata" found at the link: https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/. The project's objective is to develop an extension of the methodology described in this paper to enable the generation of complex structures in three dimensions.

A 3D Functionnal Structural Plant Model of perennial grasses morphogenesis and phenology

Photo filters based on reaction-diffusion equations

A simple mechanics-based approach to simulating cells. Uses a component-based GUI approach

Generating gate-level electronic circuits on FPGAs through gene expression and morphogenesis closely tied to hardware configuration.

Reproduction of the "Growing Neural Cellular Automata" paper

Code supplementary for Grant P. et al. 2020. Interpretation of morphogen gradients by a bistable circuit

"Theoretical tool bridging cell polarities with development of robust morphologies" published in eLife (2018)

Implementation of the differential growth algorithm in openFrameworks

Modelling pattern formation by numerical integration of systems of coupled convection-diffusion differential equations.